Thursday, December 26, 2024
12/26/2024
Project Summary: The Project will focus efforts to enhance and expand existing suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention efforts for American Indian and Alaska Native populations residing on or near the White Earth Reservation will include the implementation of effective, culturally based programs, across interdisciplinary teams and departments to promote wellness, build resilience, and prevent suicidal behaviors. In efforts to prevent suicide, an emphasis will be placed on improving care coordination by narrowing the gap in care transitions to the community from psychiatric inpatient and residential treatment centers. The project will work to train and educate providers across all medical, behavioral health systems, law enforcement, and school districts located on and near the White Earth Reservation by using evidence-based and best practices for suicide screening and care. Awareness campaigns and activities will support the project's goal of creating suicide safer communities in which prevention and early identification are priorities and treatment and support are available. The project will empower youth, families, and communities through culture, education, leadership, and community connectedness to increase protective factors and reduce at-risk behavior. Priority will be placed on building youth platforms to strengthen and inspire their peers towards positive health and mental wellness. Population to be Served: The project will serve youth, families, and communities residing on or near the White Earth Reservation. The project will have an emphasis on individual experiencing a mental health crisis, or recent suicide attempt, to ensure the safety and wellbeing of the individual and family unit impacted by the mental health crisis. Additional areas of focus will target individuals transitioning back to the community from psychiatric inpatient facilities and residential treatment centers. The project will focus on the American Indian and Alaska Native youth with an emphasis on adolescents and young adults. Families and communities will be served through culturally appropriate approaches to foster socially connected communities and increase family cohesion. Project Goals: Goal 1: Prevent suicide by developing and implementing policies and procedures that narrow the gap during transitions of care to ensure the safety and recovery of youth, adults, and families. Goal 2: Expand the safety net of providers, and key community partners, by developing and implementing a plan to respond to the increased need for suicide prevention, intervention skills, and postvention responses. Goal 3: Prevent suicide by enhancing community awareness that suicide is preventable through outreach activities, education, trainings, and marketing strategies using a cultural lens. Goal 4: Promote positive development and increase resiliency of Native youth by providing culturally appropriate prevention activities developed by Native youth that live on or near the White Earth Reservation.
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